Thank you absorption seems to be just off base when considered in the context of practice as it implies a nihilistic subsumption or surrender of the mediators intent. That said I can understand it as a best compromise term an indicator of a successive deepening state of practice
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In my terminology the term absorption aptly describes one of the observable passive reactive states of identification characterized by its lack of active intent-fullness. I would suggest that almost every accomplishment in life is done in just that state.
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"Sound is a thorn to the first absorption" it is not uncommon that a materials strength can be increased by exposing it to stress. For example steel is subjected to rapid cooling in order to increase it strength.
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On that note, I've found meditating to the sound of running water (e.g., by the flowing stream that runs through the grounds of the monastery where I previously resided) strangely conducive to absorption. In those states, I completely lose track of time and the surrounding world.
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In addition to "absorption," jhāna is also sometimes rendered "trance." Both terms (whether accurately or inaccurately) can carry the connotation of surrender, but qualitatively, it's nothing of the nihilistic variety. Words don't do it justice.
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Jhāna blooms from focused attention and keen intention, but can't be forced. In fact, attempting to do so tends to put it at a greater distance. In other cases, it occurs as if accidentally, with the meditator stumbling into it. It exists somewhere between intention/surrender.
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Take yourself into the streets still your mind form an image to act as anchor enter into the world of sensation seeking to expand that world. Do this hundreds of thousands of times a million times and you have my experience.
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I mentioned my efforts and the monks who secluded themselves specifically to point at the fragility of seated mediation attainments. We had a discussion about essential nature and the possibility of change to that nature.
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My post about tempering steel so as to change its properties directly related to those monks whose fragility in practice was so easily disrupted. More so I am of the opinion that attainments realized in seclusion are not attainments in relation to being but mist in the forest.
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Agreed. The real test of practice is whether its results can be sustained under fluctuating conditions. If not, then those results are conditional, thus conditioned (saṅkhāra), hence transient (anicca) like mist in the forest.
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